The David Eagle Podcast

Here’s a little audio blog from The Regent’s Park in London, in which I get accosted by a saucy duck, we discover some shocking news about Google, and we learn all about a jazz singer with a rather checkered past.

After my victory at Manchester's comedy competition, Beat The Frog, I travel to London for the famous King Gong comedy competition, where I come up against my most ruthless and brutal audience yet. But can I survive the five minutes without being gonged off.

It’s the third and final part of Eagle vs Frog, recounting my dramatic adventures into the world of gladiatorial standup comedy competitions.

This is the second part of a three part audio blog series, Eagle vs Frog, talking about my formative standup comedy attempts.

Last Monday I attended the gladiatorial standup comedy competition, Beat The Frog, at Manchester’s Frog and Bucket comedy club. In the third and final part of this audio blog series, released this Tuesday, I will recount what unfolded on that night. But first, in parts one and two, I regale you with tales of my very first standup comedy attempts.

So, from last week’s blog post about Theresa May and the police, we seamlessly segway to a song involving Theresa May and the police, or a member of the Police, at least.

The concluding part of our reel-to-reel tape based detective story.

We’ve come along way with this investigation. Today we focus on the owner of the Reel-To-Reel recorder, Ken Cooper, as we go from barely knowing anything about him, to discovering a great deal. Hopefully there’ll be a final part, in which we get to chat with some of the people who were on this recording, made 55 years ago, but for now, here’s the penultimate instalment of our reel-to-reel based my...

Today we are thrown a bit of a curveball regarding David Cooper, yet we nevertheless seem to be edging ever closer to uncovering the people behind this mysterious old reel-to-reel recording.

Thanks to Abby for providing us with the various revelations in today’s episode of our investigation.

Continuing the investigation into a mysterious reel-to-reel tape recording from the 1960/70s. Does the tape belong to the late Ken Cooper, father of the late David Cooper? Will Steven Mainprize reply to my email and provide us with valuable information? And is Private Frazer a red herring?

Following yesterday’s dramatic revelations, our investigation continues, as we hopefully start edging closer to finding out more about this mysterious reel-to-reel recording, and the people behind it.

Part four of our investigation to track down the people involved in a 1960s/70s reel-to-reel tape recording. Yesterday, we uncovered a major clue, in the form of some names. One of the names was Steven Mainprize. A Google search led to a couple of possible matches, one of which was Stephen Mainprize, owner of Mainprize Upholstery. So today, I gave that Steven Mainprize a call, and this is what hap...

Our investigation continues, as we try and track down the people involved in an old reel-to-reel tape recording which has accidentally ended up in my possession.

Ready to do some detective work? As we take a trip back in time and attempt to solve a mystery, by listening for clues held on an old reel-to-reel tape.

In 2008, my friend Ben went to a car boot sale in Scarborough, where, For some strange reason he decided on a whim to buy an old reel-to-reel tape recorder. When he got the recorder home, he noticed that there was a tape inside the box. The contents of that reel-to-reel tape launched us on an unexpected journey of discovery, as we investigate the recording, making some rather exciting and dramatic...

As 2016 draws to an end, so does David’s Daily Digital Dollop. In this, the final Dollop, we spend eighty minutes revisiting some Dollop highlights, before finally saying goodbye to this ridiculous and stupidly crazy project.

Featuring my final Dollop in the bath; another childhood composition; a very touching and respectful tribute to Nana from the Royal Family; I kill off Aled Jones; there's an improvised drama about Father Christmas having to fill out a risk assessment form; My namesake is back and he's stealing my women; my niece Lucy returns to say goodbye and create a few more Dollop jingles; and the fina...

This week: Christmas sketches, self-composed Christmas songs and some observations about how to improve Christmas carols. I am interviewed by a child Dollop fan. And as this project draws to an end it's time to say goodbye to a couple of classic Dollop characters, my housemate Ben and his girlfriend Elsa. We do our last Dollop from the kitchen and my last walk through rural Sheffield. It's...

This week I find some old recordings which include a drama I created at uni about a rather odd father Christmas, and some weird clips of late night radio talk shows in the 90s. We also go on a walk through rural Sheffield and meet a farmer with some very dubious jokes and even more dubious opinions.

This is the week where I introduce you to my new girlfriend, plus there are plenty of shower antics to tell you about. Are those two things linked? You'll have to listen to find out. Plus join me on a train and a couple of toilets for tales of childhood trauma and wedding weirdness.

This week we have some workmen in the house and they are making me feel rather intimidated by their confident manliness, however I have a clever plan to appear much more manly in their eyes; and no, it doesn't involve getting naked, Chloe. There's another self-composed song: a pun-laden missive from a heartbroken maths student. Plus more lip biting news, more ideas for David's Daily Di...